Matthew Seymour (1669 - 1735)

Born Nov 1669 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Hayes) Seymour — married 1690 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 1735 at about age 65 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Capt Matthew Seymour is a 6x great-grandfather of President Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.^[1]

Biography

Matthew Seymour^[2] was born May 1669 in Norwalk, and died about 1735 in Norwalk. He married first Sarah Hayes, born 19 Sep 1673 in Norwalk, daughter of Samuel Hayes and Elizabeth? Moore.

He married second Catherine Fairchild.

Children

At least the first seven by first wife; lsat three (and possibly four) by second wife:

1. Samuel Seymour, b abt 1694; d abt 1754
2. Matthew Seymour, b abt 1694
3. Thomas Seymour, b abt 1702
4. Jehiel Seymour, b abt 1704
5. Hannah Seymour, b abt 1706; d 22 Aug 1768 Ridgefield, Connectiut
6. Elizabeth Seymour, b abt 1708
7. Ruth Seymour, b abt 1710
8. Sarah Seymour, b abt 1712; m. abt 1734 John Bouton
9. Catherine Seymour
10. Susanna Seymour, m abt 1742 Josiah Rusco
11. Daniel Seymour

His will dated 4 Jan 1734/5 names his wife Catherine, children Matthew, Samuel, Thomas, Jehiel, David (son of Catherine, Hannah St John, Elizabeth Bouton, Ruth Smith, Sarah Bouton, Catherine, Susanna, mentions his brother John Seymour.^[3]

His inventory was taken on 2, 3 & 5 February 1735/36. It included an enslaved man named Bristol.^[4]

Capt. Matthew Seymour was a selectman of Norwalk for several years and deputy to the General Court from Norwalk in 1712 and 1713. He was made lieutenant in 1710 and was chosen captain of the North Company in Norwalk 26 May 1729.

Sources

1. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009, page #?
2. ↑ Gary Ala Boughton and Helen Schavet Ullman, "Fairchild5 Bouton of New Canaan and Ridgefield, Connecticut," in The American Genealogist, 75: 1, p 55.
3. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 6-8, 1717-1750”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-T23V : 4 May 2022), FHL microfilm 007627301, image 662-663, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 8, 1725-1740, Page 353-356.
4. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 6-8, 1717-1750”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-T23X  : 4 May 2022), FHL microfilm 007627301, image 667-669, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 8, 1725-1740, Page 363-367.

• Crane, Angeline Smith Pickering. The Genealogy and History of the John Keysar Smith Family of Valley Rest, Florence, Nebraska (Angeline Crane, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1922) Page 21-2 & Page 28
• Seymour, George Dudley. The English Home and Ancestry of Richard Seamer Or Semer of Hartford, Conn. (Stanhope Press, Boston, 1917) Page 9

A History of the Seymour Family compiled and arranged by George Dudley Seymour by Donald Lines Jacobus New Haven, Connecticut 1939